I am going to be starting a project soon, and I need to know all the
possible ways that a java program can get information from a non-java
program.  This project will be Windows based.  I am looking for online
resources that will have this information on it

Is that true Thread.sleep(10000) will make current thread to sleep for
10 seconds?
I cannot use Thread.currentThread().sleep(10000) since sleep is a
static method of Thread. Right? Thread.currentThread() will return a

I have a question when passing null in the parameter when invoking a
method.  Consider:
public class Test1
    public void method3(Object o){

Is there a way to compile Java programs so you don't need JRE on a
computer to execute it?

why not auto boxing support in this case:
 int i ...;
 double d ...;
 Object[] a = new Object[] {i, d};

I have down load jre1.5.0_04 from sun.com, but it requires to
compile by myself. Where could I down load javac and ohter application.
Thanks

All -
I'm fairly new to Hibernate and have thoroughly read the Hibernate in
Action as well as the online Hibernate document and the xdoclet
documentation (hoping that would give me a clue!)

I want to display the progress of a task to the user. The task happen in a non gui class of my
application which simply update a currentProgress attribute which I want the Progress Bar class to
check every second and update the bar.
I have the issue that the dialog containing the ...

I have two rather silly questions about URLs but please bear with me for a
while.
Usually when you use the URLConnection class to read from a website you
don't get prompted for authentication but if you are trying to post

How to map character from a string to the corresponding
KeyEvent.VK_character?
I want to generate events to type a sentence.
Do I need to enter the corresponding integer constants in an array and

I'm sure this has been mentioned befroe, but I an't find a satisfactory
answer, but why is JavaMail separate from JSE (and JEE?), and then why
is it two separate downloads (mail.jar and activation.jar)?
I'm a massive fan of Java and have been for ages, but having played with

I have a big problem with JNI.If I call a native function that contains
a loop, the CPU usage reaches 100%. I tryed the native function from a
native application,and the CPU usage is normal...I found a way to fix
that(By using native call and then callback from native environement

I have a java application and I want to make sure that there gets just
one instance executed (on the same machine).
Can any one suggest me some approach to do the same.
Thanks

I am beggining with Axis, I have made classes, like the sample
"example6" of userguide in Axis samples. So my webservice run
correctly.
But now in my Java code, I need to get the url where is running the

If I run this code in windows all is ok ( START
http://localhost:8087/AuleServer ), but if try to execute it in
                               Runtime rt=Runtime.getRuntime();
                               try {